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Nothing quite like the tale of a Brainwashed and Crazy friend and/or love interest that is pitted against the hero! The drama, the pain, the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight, the way the hero refuses to hurt their friend despite being wailed on by them, the fact that the person that is brainwashed may be trying their hardest to fight back or perhaps is struggling to even regain awareness, but sadly cannot seem to truly break free...

All of it is just so perfect! These are the types of scenes I adore! These are the scenes that give me goosebumps and send chills up my spine! These scenes are my passion!

These scenes MAKE stories!

... Sorry! I enjoy acting over-dramatic about stuff like this.

edited 7th Dec '17 7:36:58 PM by CrystalMemoria

So I played a couple matches of Galactic Assault and Starfighter Assault in Star Wars Battlefront II (2017).

It was okay.

Spelunking through a Halo Ring is something else...

So, anyone paying attention to this day of rage protest happening?

edited 8th Dec '17 9:18:14 AM by pointless233

What are we protesting this week?

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John Di Maggio made a tweet that contains an image that offends me on like, ten different levels at least. And I am so glad he did it, because as offensive as that image is, it is the perfect portrait of what the Republican Party has become. And if I show it to either parent, I'm gonna get kicked out faster than you can say "covfefe." Mom will get triggered by the content, Dad will accuse me of trying to push my ideas onto them, and both of them will accuse me of not caring about their need for no stress in their lives.

I genuinely don't want them upset at me. I genuinely don't want them to suffer because of my actions. But I also genuinely believe that they are in danger of losing their souls if they don't wake up and realize that the GOP is beginning to lead them away from Christlike thought and action.

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This is somewhat relevant.

The Republican party is the party of Mammon. Well, so are mainstream Democrats. But the Republicans have spent the last six years demonstrating that their "family values" crusade is a front for "let old megarich white men do whatever they want".

edited 8th Dec '17 8:30:41 PM by TParadox

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We are protesting how internet service providers have gotten the FCC to eliminate Net Neutrality in the US, despite Net Neutrality being supported by a majority of both liberals and conservatives. How blatantly corrupt our government is and how despite the obvious desires of the people, it totally ignores them and gives out a big gift to the ISPs by enabling them to throttle content from companies that haven't paid them for a "fast lane".

The protests will change no government minds, but the point is to get the record out about how much the American people are against the behavior of their own government.

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So tonight, in 7 hours from now (at 7:30pm US Eastern time), the movie Troper Coven will be watching The Accountant, about an autistic assassin (who is also an accountant). I've seen it twice and looking forward to a third time. A handful of people from the Aspie Troper Discord will be joining us there.

Anyone else want to come? The link to the movie group is in my sig! Anyone who wants to come is welcome, and they can even arrive late. There's no obligation.

You could've just said "this one is for Net Neutrality". I've heard and made all the arguments.

There's just so many things to be marching in the streets for these days. Punishing abusers, gutting national parks, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Patreon playing a shell game with their pledges that means more money for them and less money for the patrons...

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My favourite doujin singer has announced that she will be exhibiting during Winter Comiket 2018 and M3 Spring 2019. The problem? My flight ticket is for M3 Spring 2018 and the dates for both events will be announced long after that. I am unlikely to be able to travel for M3 Spring 2019 because it is within the peak season for the company I'm working in.

I got 2 free date changes. Is it wise to change the date to an estimate of M3 Spring 2019 first and then change back to the confirmed date of either Winter Comiket 2018 or Summer Comiket 2019 in case that I am unable to attend the former?

When I talked this to my older sister, she outright ridiculed me for throwing money for the sake of fulfilling unworthy travel goals and I should just buy a much cheaper ticket while accepting the fact that I cannot meet her. If I can't meet her, it will be at least another 2 years before I can even plan to do so, thus I cannot simply change my travel goals.

edited 9th Dec '17 8:24:18 PM by murazrai

I have been now for about three months getting emails addressed to someone named "Mr. Breck" who lives in Oklahoma (I live in Pennsylvania) from a medical company that contain among other things pretty detailed records of his visits to their facilities and requests that he pay them for overdue service fees. I have now replied to these people three seperate times that I am not Mr. Breck and they are sending his emails to the wrong place (indeed I have no idea how you mix up Breck and my last name, which is about as dissimilar as it's possible to be from it) and I have yet to get a reply.

This isn't even the only thing I've gotten on behalf of this Breck fellow, a few months ago I got something addressed to him about renting a bounce castle, and I've also gotten what looked like a spam email addressed to him. I don't know who this dude is, but he's not getting his mail and I don't know what to do about it.

it's either real or it's a dream there's nothing that is in between

I've got a song from Sailor Moon stuck in my head.

https://youtu.be/WZ2EKqsEmcM

I was going to say the scene wouldn't make much sense in context, but then I remembered it was the opening scene of the movie...

I blame looking through the thread about the last movie you watched.

Does anyone know how long it typically takes for nostalgia to take effect?

You can't really determine like nostalgia because it's varies from person to person,sometimes it's a year,others a month,it can be even something that takes a decade before they start feeling something nostalgic

New theme music also a box

I feel so nostalgic I almost cry when I think of working at the amusement park, and that even happened between seasons (so, a period of months).

I'm still not nostalgic for The '90s.

I want to rant about how bad Ready Player One is again

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison

So a Disney Music executive got arrested for abusing a child performer. Two, actually.

All this stuff about men in positions of power manipulating or abusing women and children makes me think that the societal idea that men are "tough" is an illusion.

It's easy to think of yourself as tough when women and children aren't allowed to compete with you. When they're required to show deference. When they can be dismissed as unimportant. It means you can simply act like you're above them, and they won't prove you wrong.

And yet, a man who basically needs to manipulate others or abuse power in order to get what they want, is a man with very little power in and of himself.

Suddenly I find myself in the mood for some fruit-flavored candy, like gummy bears or worms. :S ^_^;;

I like to keep my audience riveted.

Anybody else remember Terraria: Otherworld?

I wanna do at least some of the following creative stuff next year:

- Finish my unfinished nanowrimo novel. I think part of my problem was that I went all in on Writing by the Seat of Your Pants when I should have had at least a loose outline of where I wanted the plot to go - I'm gonna take some time to look over what I've got so far and figure out where I wanna go with it. I don't want to plan out everything, because it's kinda fun to throw a Shocking Swerve into the end of a chapter and then try to figure out what I'm going to do next. Oh, also just more writing in general, probably more of short stories/poetry/lyrics etc.

- Make my long-planned rap EP/Album/Mixtape thing - I have some fragmented lyrics and beats just laying around right now. Also, maybe try for an album with sung lyrics. I have this idea to try and produce something vaguely Pretty Hate Machine-ish, at least in the sense of venting personal angst over dancey music.

- Learn to play guitar. Or at least find some easy songs to play on melodica.

- Get back to trying to sell the art prints I had made - I've got an etsy account for that, but currently nothing for sale because I let the listing expire.

- make more art... And maybe learn to paint? I don't really have a space to do non-digital art stuff, but my sister's old room is currently just storage and could be converted into an office/art room. Painting I see maybe picking up in spring/summer weather - realistically if I don't want to make a mess I see myself doing it on the back patio. Also, I've done these cute digital portraits of myself, my friends, my pets, and my friends' pets, so I have this idea that I could do that for strangers (or their pets) for money.

edited 12th Dec '17 2:00:35 PM by MikeK

You know... It just dawned on me that this:

Aichi avatar isn't even from Cardfight!! Vanguard. It's from Future Card Buddyfight.

obviously the specifics vary from person to person, but the wider cultural trend is that things tend to get mined for nostalgia about 20 years after they happen. This goes back at least to the 80s when there was a good deal of 60s nostalgia (including a second wave of psychadelic rock).

It's why 90s throwbacks have kinda started to displace 80s ones as the 2010s have gone on. I fully expect aughts nostalgia to be in full force in just a few years at most, and frankly I cannot wait.

it's either real or it's a dream there's nothing that is in between

I actually think it's already here.

On old mass media nostalgia tends to work on 20/30+ year cycles.

On the internet it's more like 10 years.

Nostalgia can occur even within a few years of something, sometimes. For me it has. I've had nostalgia for Skyrim, a video game from 2011, this year. So it can vary tremendously from person to person, nostalgic thing to nostalgic thing.

Generally, my nostalgia is not for something that new, though.

edited 12th Dec '17 4:04:14 PM by BonsaiForest

stomach why do you hurt

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